Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonmacnoise
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33031, -7.98349
- SMR number
- OF005-030----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The presence of a crannóg at Clonmacoise is referred to in the Annals of the Four Masters. According to the files of the N.M.I. an iron tongs was found on a 'crannóg in marshy land' at Clonmacnoise. No further information available. (Reynolds-Dunlevy, M. and Haworth, R. 1975, 41; Halpin, A. 1984, 119; McDonald, T. 1987, 23; N.M.I. IA/236/64)
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Quayunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.